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CHOOSING A BOOT
Generally, the fewer seams a boot has, the better it is. The best boots have only one seam running up the back.
Alwyn T. Perrin, editor, Explorers Ltd. Source Book
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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TIMING A GIG
If your musical engagement is less than two hours long, you will spend as much time setting up and taking down equipment as you will playing music.
Ellen Klaver, musician, Boulder, Colorado
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Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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CHOOSING AN ARROW
To quickly estimate the arrow length best for you, hold the end of a yardstick against your breast bone with your hands together stretched in front of you. Read the arrow length where your fingertips touch the yardstick.
Dana Burdick, electronic technician
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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FIGURING THINGS OUT
Simple things are more complicated than they seem, but most complicated things are actually very simple.
Cliff Martin, Eugene, Oregon
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ESTIMATING THE ADULT SIZE OF A HORSE
Measure a young horse from the knee to the withers, then from the knee to the coronet. When the ratio of the first to the second is two to one, the horse is fully grown.
Mark S. Patterson, scored 100 on his last civil service test, Lyons, New York
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Current Rating: 4.3 out of 10 based on 13 reviews
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SELLING THINGS BY MAIL
Past customers will respond three to six times as well as good prospects who are not past customers.
Jim Kobs, Kobs and Brady Advertising, Chicago, Illinois
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Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 14 reviews
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CALCULATING INVESTMENT VALUE
Divide 150 by the annual simple interest rate to determine the time it will take an investment to quadruple if interest is compounded yearly.
Jud Town, author, St. Albert, Canada
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Current Rating: 4.2 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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RENOVATING A LARGE BUILDING
Renovation generally saves only 10 to 15 percent of the cost of new construction.
James Colby, civil engineer
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Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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FRYING DONUTS
When a film of smoke begins to rise from the hot fat, it is the right temperature for frying donuts.
Helen Ward, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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CHOKING ON FOOD
If a choking person can verbally request the Heimlich maneuver, he or she doesn't need it.
James Macmillan M.D., Ithaca, New York
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Current Rating: 6 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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OCCAM'S RAZOR
The simplest explanation is the one most likely to be true.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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Current Rating: 6.1 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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